An Awfully Beastly Business: Bang Goes a Troll
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This issue’s cover illustration by Nick Price is from Pongwiffy, Back on Track by Kaye Umansky. Kaye Umansky is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. Thanks to Bloomsbury for their help with this May cover.
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An Awfully Beastly Business: Bang Goes a Troll
Jonny Duddle
I read this book on a day spent stocking up on books for Key Stage 2 mindful of my colleagues’ plea for titles that would take children from picture books to novels. If that’s the end, Bang Goes a Troll could be one of the means. But like many a means to an end it’s not the most outstanding way to do a job.
The story is enjoyable enough, a plain battle with a couple of good villains in Baron Marackai and his henchman, Blud. A plain plot, wrapped up with trappings that will enhance the book’s appeal. There are good illustrations that will have appeal to comic fans and the cover has a hologram. These are gimmicks, but I think they’ll do a job. So, have a copy for Key Stage 2!
